An Act has been passed in New York requiring tbat fire-escapes should be affixed to houses used for residental purposes. 11,000 houses have already been furnished with escapes. Monster Home Trips. — A correspondent of a Melbourne paper suggests the formation of a society on the plan of a building society to enable young men to visit the home country, for the purpose of visiting the scientific institutions and manufacturing districts of Great Britain. He says: — By conducting excursions on a large scale, Cook, the monster excursionist at home, has managed, at a comparatively small cost, to convey a number of persons to America and back, to the Holy Land and back, and on many other journeys.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 196, 20 August 1870, Page 2
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